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Michel, Bernhard

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Rycx, François

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dc.date.accessioned

2009-06-15

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dc.date.accessioned

2010-07-07T11:52:36Z

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dc.date.available

2010-07-07T11:52:36Z

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dc.date.issued

2009

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dc.identifier.pi

urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090605213

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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35499

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dc.description.abstract

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates in output and it is among the first to address both materials and business services offshoring to high-wage and low-wage countries. Estimations of static and dynamic industry-level labour demand equations augmented by offshoring intensities do not reveal a significant impact of either materials or business services offshoring on total employment for Belgium between 1995 and 2003.

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eng

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|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn

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|aIZA discussion papers |x4164

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dc.subject.jel

F15

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dc.subject.jel

J22

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dc.subject.ddc

330

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dc.subject.keyword

Offshoring

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dc.subject.keyword

imported intermediate inputs

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supply and use tables

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industry-level employment

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labour demand equations

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panel data

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dc.subject.stw

Offshoring

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dc.subject.stw

Vorprodukt

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Unternehmensdienstleistung

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Sektorale Beschäftigungsstruktur

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dc.subject.stw

Arbeitsnachfrage

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Beschäftigungseffekt

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dc.subject.stw

Schätzung

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dc.subject.stw

Belgien

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dc.title

Does offshoring of materials and business services affect employment? Evidence from a small open economy